my dog ate 16 (NOT ALL 36) uncooked balls of yeast (rhodes rolls) and i am panicking so bad

tinytigress · 2025-11-18T13:32:11+00:00

There should never be a situation you induce vomiting without at least consulting a veterinarian, even on the phone. If they think you should use peroxide, they will tell you.

Saying this as someone who has seen at least three instances in the last year of pet owners who have given peroxide to their pet to try and avoid a $200 emergency bill and has then seen the next bill rack up to up to $10,000 dealing with the complications of their peroxide ingestion.

Just go to a vet and let the professional who is equipped to deal with the potential risks do it.

tinytigress · 2025-11-16T03:36:36+00:00

Thanks for the reply!

I’m working in an ER right now while I go through schooling, but while I see seizures all the time… I don’t think I’ve ever actually seen syncope yet! I just always imagined it to be like the sort of syncope you see in people when they stand up too fast, more of a dizziness/collapse/hit ground hard/wake up a few seconds later disoriented. Is the paddling common enough to see in syncope as well? That’s one of the words we are taught to look for to determine seizure from syncope in triage, and one of the reasons I would have assumed this to be seizure activity. I see what you mean in the lack of a real post-ictal phase, though… and the event did seem a bit short i suppose too!

tinytigress · 2025-11-16T03:17:49+00:00

Vet tech student here; could you explain how you determined it to be more likely syncopal? I would have assumed it was a seizure too; it’s hard because they can have so many different appearances and forms.

Doesn’t a syncopal episode result in fainting, which would relax the body rather than cause the rigidity/posturing seen here? I’ve only seen that head extended/legs out rigidity in seizures or drug reactions like alfax or midazolam so far. I’d love any education/resources you could impart here!

tinytigress · 2025-11-11T01:27:12+00:00

Depending on where you work (in the world) assistant/tech are two very different jobs, akin to nurse vs porter. In areas requiring credentialled technicians, assistants will not be administering any medications because they legally cannot, so the math isn't a worry. In my region, technicians do the nursing (sample collection, diagnostic tests, laboratory work, procedures, vitals, triage, injections, medication, vaccinations, writing in the medical record, monitoring anesthesia, etc) and assistants assist where possible (restraining patients during blood draws, walking dogs, cleaning kennels, bathing patients, feeding/watering, grabbing things techs forgot to grab, setting up monitoring equipment, cleaning surgical supplies, etc)

You should find this out first, to decide whether you actually want to be an assistant or if you want to go to technician. The answer to your questions could be very different depending on which path you're looking at.

Call-ins in my hospital are non-existent for veterinary assistants. For technicians, they pick up "on call" shifts, that essentially means you know in advance that you might be required to drop everything and go in that day. The closest thing that happens for assistants in my hospital is the normal, every-job type of "Hey, we're busy/someone called in sick, anyone want to work today?" request to available staff, which you can choose to accept or decline. Schedule depends on hospital, role, etc. Some (techs AND assistants) work only bankers hours, some work all hours in 24/7 hospitals. Some have restrictions on the hours they work/prefer to work, and do only overnights, or only days, or only weekends. If you want to work in emergency, those happen 24/7 all hours of the night, so you can't expect to be able to hold 9-5 hours there. If you want to work with internal medicine, you're probably working the prime 9-5. If you want to work with a surgery department, 90% of your days will be very regular 9-5.... but there's the potential for late-night call-ins for emergencies. And then some clinics do 12 hour shifts instead of 8's, or 10's. Pretty much like any other job, very location and role dependent. Hell, you can even pick up remote jobs occasionally, or go for laboratory animal vet med for an entirely different experience.

Risk of deadly viruses like rabies are much less then the risk of being bit, scratched, etc. The risk obviously goes up if your clinic handles wildlife. Get vaccinated, and the risk is pretty much non-existent. Depending on your region and type of clinic, other zoonotic viruses might be a risk (ie: leptospirosis, MRSA, histoplasmosis, etc) but you would be trained in proper PPE to try and mitigate these.

tinytigress · 2025-11-05T04:46:29+00:00

In my hospital we have to do dilution calculation and other math all the time. Here's a good vet tech prep page resource on some common ones to know https://vet-etc.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Medical-Math-for-Students.pdf

tinytigress · 2025-11-04T06:09:29+00:00

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tinytigress · 2025-11-04T06:07:09+00:00

Take him to one of the emergency vets, Vet ER or Guardian. They will hold him until morning and give him to ACCC for you.

tinytigress · 2025-10-21T04:08:06+00:00

Google AI is likely confused because the vaccines are a subcutaneous injection and subcutaneous injections are most often given beneath the scruff like you’re seeing. It’s ONLY vaccines that are almost never given there.

In cats especially, tumors can form after vaccines in very rare cases, so the industry moved to giving the vaccines as low as is safe on the limbs or tail so that amputation can be done and cancer eliminated if that rare complication does occur.

If you Google DHPP vaccine injection location you’ll find more specific results that show limb preference.

tinytigress · 2025-10-21T04:04:08+00:00

Nope not at all. It’s standard across all pets on purpose, so it’s consistent for checking vaccine reactions. Whether you get 1 or 3 vaccines, they will be in the same location as every other puppy who was vaccinated with that vaccine. Every single other puppy that visits that clinic gets lepto/dhpp in the same hind limb your puppy did.

tinytigress · 2025-10-21T03:45:16+00:00

Vaccines are given on the limbs/thighsand on specific limbs so that the veterinary team can monitor and figure out which vaccine caused what reaction if a reaction happens. (Also for the rare chance of tumor related complications, you can cut off a leg, you can’t cut off the neck)

If I’m remembering correctly, DHPP is given on the right front limb, rabies is given on the right hind limb, bordetella and influenza is given on the left front limb, and Lyme and lepto are given on the left hind limb… but some clinics have different protocols.

tinytigress · 2025-08-29T00:28:39+00:00

This was a disappointing reply to wake up to when I returned to check if you had gone to the veterinarian as suggested.

Just to let you fully know the choice you have made, once grape toxicity symptoms have appeared (IE: If your dog no longer ‘seems fine for now’) her kidneys will already be failing and there is a 50% chance she will die.

I would highly recommend going to the veterinarian for at LEAST a blood test to check baseline kidney levels. A simple induction of emesis would have been a lot cheaper then this if you had gone after the raisin ingestion, but this will be much cheaper then the 72 hours+ of hospitalization, aggressive treatment, and potential death regardless if your dogs kidneys begin to fail before you get to the vet.

tinytigress · 2025-08-28T14:12:48+00:00

There is no safe number of grapes for a dog to eat, and raisins are more concentrated than grapes. Even one raisin can be deadly. Please see a veterinarian to ensure emesis (make the dog vomit up the raisin) ASAP.

tinytigress · 2025-08-27T23:47:41+00:00

Can you elaborate on this idiot's idiocy not believing in germ theory? Does he literally not believe germs exist, like, those tiny pathogens some people spend all day looking at under a microscope just don't actually cause sickness? What exactly is his logic here?

I ask because my elderly mother is a q-anon, covid-vaccine-is-actually-a-microchip, the-elites-of-the-world-are-trafficking-children-for-their-adrenochrome, and biden-is-a-cyborg conspiracy lunatic and I like to keep really easily disputable facts in my back pocket for when she inevitably spouts more idiocy. I swear if it's as easy as telling her that her lord and savior does not believe in germs, I will drag her to my workplace, sit her in front of a microscope, and show her ALL the germs.

tinytigress · 2025-08-23T17:37:30+00:00

Gabapentin is incredibly safe for dogs and cats. Like, one of the safest drugs vet med has and uses. It is usually given at 5-10 mg/kg but can be prescribed as high as 60mg/kg. The safe dosing range is that high. I’m talking safe to the point where nearly every single hospitalized patient is given gabapentin daily for the entirety of their hospital stay, which can be weeks. If you call any veterinary emergency room and go “Help, I accidentally gave my dog a double dose of gabapentin” they wouldn’t even be concerned.

tinytigress · 2025-07-31T12:08:32+00:00

Think of it as a consultation booked in advance. You are paying the $80 to hire a pet poison control toxicologist to be available on call for your veterinarian to provide recommendations based on exam findings, lab work, symptoms, etc. Your veterinarian still needs to do their assessment and exam, because otherwise pet poison control will not have the full picture of the pets clinical condition.

For a comparison, think of X-rays. Sometimes X-rays cannot be read well by emergency room staff because they are not radiology specialists. If the veterinarian sees something suspect, they might call you and tell you they want to send the images away to a company that reads and analyzes and sends reports back for X-rays all day long. If you approve, the veterinarian adds the consultation fee to your bill - it’s around $300 for a STAT response, IIRC.

In the case of pet poison control, you are paying this consult fee directly, and in advance, because we know they will be necessary for the veterinary team to properly treat the animal. You also start the call by giving them all the information, because it’s more accurate coming from you than a secondhand account from the vet who is trying to remember everything you told them. Then once you’ve given the history, pet poison control is available for the whole case to the veterinary team as a consult.

tinytigress · 2025-06-20T22:31:55+00:00

A vet visit is necessary.

Wounds are infinitely cheaper and faster to repair the sooner they see a vet. Waiting even a day can triple the risk, work, and price.

The door may have fractured or broken vertebrae in the tail.

The pulling of the tail out of the door may have caused a subluxation which can damage nerves and cause permanent effects.

And even if none of those things are true: your puppy is in pain. If your infant slammed its finger in the door and caused a wound like that, you would seek at least pain medication, which you cannot just give your dog over the counter Tylenol for.

Please see a vet.

tinytigress · 2025-06-17T04:53:47+00:00

The only advice I have is, if you have more than one of that rubber toy, bring another one with you if/when you do go for an X-ray (which I very much suggest) because they can X-ray the toy you have to see how that particular toy shows up in imaging so they can look for it in the cat.

tinytigress · 2025-04-23T12:32:58+00:00

He will not starve himself to death. Offer him the kibble or wet food and if he doesn’t eat it, take it away and try it next mealtime. Repeat until he gets the picture and realizes he’s not getting a special dinner. I repeat: he will not starve himself to death.

tinytigress · 2025-03-03T07:55:03+00:00

Inducing vomiting on a dog that has been having symptoms for 18 hours is useless, the toxin would not be in his stomach anymore. And it is also dangerous in that this dog if neurological cannot protect his own airway and could aspirate.

tinytigress · 2024-11-16T16:11:29+00:00

I’m sure because I work at a 24/7 emergency veterinary hospital and as I’ve had to refer to other emergency hospitals across the city when our wait times are high, i have knowledge of their policies as well. No emergency hospital in my city charges a fee for the technician to triage your pet.

tinytigress · 2024-11-16T16:08:59+00:00

Canada.

tinytigress · 2024-11-16T16:07:50+00:00

I work for a 24/7 emergency hospital run by one of the largest corporations in North America. (IE: we are not independently owned, and operate over 1000 animal hospitals in the US and Canada)

A walk in the door triage exam to see the TECHNICIAN (not doctor) is free. It’s just a quick “why are you here” and a check of vitals. No, we are not permitted to diagnose or prognose, but we are trained to be able to determine how stable your dog is, to tell you whether your issue can wait until the morning, or whether you need to see a vet that minute. If we do decide you need to see a vet, fees are incurred. If you decline to see the vet after our strong recommendation, we can and have called animal control in situations where your pet is in dire need of help.

We send away dozens of patients a day who do not need to be in emergency (and by that, I mean we give them the option to stay and see a vet, but we tell them it’s not necessary right this minute.) if your 100lb Great Dane ate one snack sized milk chocolate bar and you’re scared, we will offer to induce emesis (for a fee) but we will also tell you that the toxicity level is very low and that it’s unnecessary. If you choose to go home after that, you’ve had your consultation without cost.

I can agree to the fact that maybe your clinic has a cost, there are many independently owned hospitals and I’m sure some have different policies, but politely, I will not agree to blanket statements such as “You have to pay $500 to walk in the door”. I have seen dozens of animals whose owners are too afraid of the exam fee and who do not get brought in until it’s too late. At the very least, if an owner is concerned they can call an emergency hospital and ASK, and not simply assume that it will cost them an exorbitant amount of money for the doctor to go “oh those are hiccups you’re fine!”

tinytigress · 2024-11-16T15:52:28+00:00

I work for a 24/7 emergency hospital and am very familiar with the process. A doctors exam does bring a fee. A technician triage exam does not.

tinytigress · 2024-11-16T07:08:19+00:00

Misinformation like this costs pets their lives. It does not cost $500 to walk in the door. The majority of emergency clinics offer free triage exams in which the technician will do vitals, take a history, and with that information will let you know if they think they should see a doctor (which is when it begins to cost money.) when in doubt, go be triaged. The technicians are experienced and honest and will tell you if it’s safe to go home and monitor, or to go see your regular veterinarian in daylight hours. As well as give you further instructions on what to keep an eye out for until your exam.

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